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No respite for civilians fleeing Darfur, killed while escaping

Displaced Sudanese women and children ride their donkeys around Ararah camp, 110km west of el-Geneina town [Reuters]

Civilians fleeing violence in Sudan’s West Darfur city of el-Geneina are being targeted even as they flee into neighbouring Chad, with a previous nationwide 72-hour ceasefire violated as violence there escalates, according to Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan.

Gunshots are being directed at civilians “even as they continue to flee for their lives”, Morgan said on Wednesday, from a region where thousands of people have fled in just the last week.

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